Caught Up Today

Patrick on Prince Edward Island

🎉 Happy Birthday 🎂

Today is the day that my significant other (Patrick aka Grenville) has caught up with me in age. We're now both 3/4s of a century. 

That's a lot of years.

We're both part of the Baby Boomer generation. This term refers to a people in the generation that was born between the end of WW II and the mid-1960s, from 1946 to 1964. 

In 1949, the U.S. population was at 149,188,130. By comparison, the current U.S. population is 341,879,132 (and counting) per an online source. 

I was curious as to how much of the U.S. population is currently our age. The closest online estimates were that of those who are 75 years of age, 38% are male and 45% are female. And that the number of people aged 75+ years has been growing at an average annual rate of 2.13%. 

If this is your birthday as well, here are some of Patrick's and your birthday facts: July 15, 1949 was a Friday. It was the 196th day of that year and the 28th Friday of that year. A fun fact is that the next time, those born in July 1949 can reuse an old 1949 calendar will be in 2033 when both calendars will be the same. His Chinese zodiac sign is the Ox and his star sign is Cancer.

Here's some things about 1949:

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  In younger days

  The 33rd U.S. President was Harry S. Truman (1945-1953). 
• No. 1 song was (Ghost) Riders in the Sky sung by Vaughn Monroe.
• The modem was invented letting computers "talk" over phone lines.
• A new car was about $1,700, gas was 26 cents/gallon 
• Buying a new home would be $14,500. 
• U.S. first-class postage was 3 cents.
• A loaf of bread cost 13 cents,  milk was 84 cents a gallon, a pound of bacon was 50 cents. 
• A box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes was 19 cents, Campbell’s Tomato Soup was 10 cents.
• Coca-Cola cost 5 cents per bottle, 25 cents per 6-bottle carton, and $1 per 24-bottle carton. 
• The minimum hourly wage was 70 cents per hour. The average 1949 annual salary was between $2,950 and $3,600.

Things have certainly changed since then.

This is one of the favorite signs in our apartment

We're traveling this week on yes, a(nother) road trip. We'll be in  Newport, RI, to visit areas we missed on our previous visit, including at least one mansion. The end of the week we'll celebrate the oldest granddaughter's 13th birthday also in RI.